[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#742553: Need a bugfix

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 11:39:10PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 06, 2015 at 08:24:20PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 06, 2015 at 07:40:42PM +0200, Frank Eiche wrote:
> 
> > > Undefined subroutine &WWW::Curl::Easy::global_cleanup called at
> > > /usr/lib/ssl/misc/tsget line 196
> > 
> > For some reason it seems in wheezy both global_cleanup() and
> > curl_global_cleanup(), but in jessie only curl_global_cleanup()
> > works.
> 
> I don't see any reference to global_cleanup() in the documentation.
> 
> It looks to me like global_cleanup() "works" (as in doesn't croak)
> in squeeze (libwww-curl-perl 4.12-1) but not in wheezy (4.15-1)
> or later.
> 
> It's probably this change:
> 
> 4.13 Wed Sep 01 2010: - Balint Szilakszi <szbalint at cpan.org>
>     [...]
>     - Modernized *.pm and AUTOLOAD now throws an error on unknown method calls [Fuji, Goro].
> 
> The squeeze version seems to silently accept anything:
> 
>  squeeze% perl -w -Mstrict -MWWW::Curl::Easy -e 'WWW::Curl::Easy::nosuchfunction()'; echo $?
>  0
> 
> but later versions correctly croak:
> 
>  wheezy% perl -w -Mstrict -MWWW::Curl::Easy -e 'WWW::Curl::Easy::nosuchfunction()'; echo $?
>  Undefined subroutine &WWW::Curl::Easy::nosuchfunction called at -e line 1
>  22
> 
> So apparently global_cleanup() was always broken but error handling
> has improved after squeeze.

I'm getting confused.  Neither global_cleanup() nor
curl_global_cleanup() seems to exist in any version as far as I
can see.  I think at least that is missing functionality in
libwww-curl-perl.


Kurt